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• Lebanon majority plans petition to vote army chief as president

  - 2007-12-03

  BEIRUT AFP — Lebanon's ruling majority is planning to draft a petition to amend the constitution in order to elect army chief General Michel Sleiman as president, Telecommunication Minister Marwan Hamadeh said on Monday. "We are planning to draft a petition for the constitutional amendment," Hamadeh, an MP and...

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• Lebanon set to privatise mobile phone network

  - 2007-11-01

  BEIRUT AFP — Debt-laden Lebanon, which has among the highest phone bills in the world, is preparing for the privatisation of its mobile network expected to take place early next year. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is holding a press conference on Friday to set the date for applications to...

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• UN ships disrupt Israeli satellite TV

  - 2007-10-10

  JERUSALEM AFP — Signal disruptions that have plagued Israeli satellite television channels for over a month are believed to be caused by UN ships patrolling off the coast of Lebanon, officials said on Wednesday. Clients of Yes, Israel's sole satellite television provider, have had to put up with frozen...

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• Three dead in protest as Lebanon army battles Islamists

  - 2007-06-29

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Three demonstrators were shot dead on Friday as Palestinians demanded to return to their shattered homes, even as Lebanese troops and Islamists battled around their refugee camp. Correspondents said several protesters were hit by gunfire, although an army spokesman said only warning shots were...

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• US rushing arms to Israel amid Lebanon bombings: official

  - 2006-07-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is expediting an arms shipment of precision bombs to Israel from an arms deal struck last year amid the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Lebanon, a US official said. A decision to rush the delivery of the weapons following an Israeli request was...

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• Syrian dissidents to go on hunger strike

  - 2006-06-05

  DAMASCUS AFP — Fourteen jailed Syrian dissidents and human rights activists have declared a week-long hunger strike starting on Saturday to press demands for their release on bail, family members said. Ten of them were arrested for signing a petition calling for a change in relations with neighbouring Lebanon....

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• Lebanese MP Jumblatt summoned to Syrian court

  - 2006-05-03

  BEIRUT AFP — Prominent Lebanese MP Walid Jumblatt and Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh have been called to appear before a Syrian military court, Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri said. Berri said he had been notified by the justice ministry and that parliament would examine the matter, but refused further...

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• Lebanon ministers walk out of cabinet meeting

  - 2006-03-30

  BEIRUT AFP — Ministers from Lebanon's anti-Syrian parliamentary majority have walked out of a cabinet meeting in protest at the presence of pro-Damascus President Emile Lahoud, in the latest political row paralyzing the country. The ministers headed out of Thursday's session after a verbal clash between anti-Syrian telecommunications minister...

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• Six Syria critics on 'hit list'

  - 2005-12-15

  BEIRUT AFP — Anti-Syrian Lebanese figures including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh are among six men on a new "hit-list." Al-Balad newspaper, quoting government and parliamentary sources, on Thursday named the other alleged targets "on the hit-list of people to be killed" as deputies Wael...

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• Hezbollah aims to snatch soldiers, Israel returns bodies

  - 2005-11-25

  NAQURA, Lebanon AFP — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called for the capture of Israeli soldiers, as the Jewish state returned the bodies of three fighters of the Lebanese Shiite movement killed in clashes. During a ceremony to honour those killed, Nasrallah told militants it was their duty to try...

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